Sally Tracy

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Sally Tracy DMid is an Australian, midwife, midwifery researcher, author and activist.

Tracy is the Professor of Women's Health Nursing and Midwifery;Royal Hospital for Women, Sydney and University of Technology, Sydney and a Conjoint Associate Professor, University of New South Wales, Sydney. She is based at the Centre for Women's Health Nursing and Midwifery at the Royal Hospital for Women, Randwick, Sydney. Her research projects include the safety of primary level (especially rural) maternity hospitals and Birth Centres in Australia and the evaluation of midwifery led units. She is currently the chief investigator on a large multicentre randomised controlled trial of caseload midwifery care, funded by a project grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia. The M@NGO Project [Midwives @ New Group practice Options] will report their findings in 2010. She has authored numerous research articles. She was a joint author of the National Maternity Action Plan.

For the past twelve years Tracy has been at the forefront of midwifery politics in Australia. She has challenged the Australian maternity system through research and practice development in a bid to get a better deal for women in childbirth. She helped to set up the Ryde Midwifery Caseload Practice, in Sydney, in 2003. Her current research questions the acceptability of the increasing interference of obstetrics with the physiological birth process. ^[1]